Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

Historical Facts
	Elise Boulding talks about history of differences.
	Julia Chaitin talks about a Palestinian-Israeli joint history textbook.
	Barry Hart of Eastern Mennonite University explains how trauma can contribute to perpetuating the cycle of violence. He draws examples from the Balkans.
	Determining when events happened is important to understanding a situation, says mediator Silke Hansen.
	It is easy to learn the history of the community if you listen more than talk, observes CRS Mediator Renaldo Rivera.
	ICRS Mediator Stephen Thom describes collecting information about a conflict by becoming a "sponge."
	ICRS Mediator Stephen Thom describes how some parties can help the mediator more than others.
	It is easy to learn the history of the community if you listen more than talk, observes CRS Mediator Renaldo Rivera.

This rough transcript provides a text alternative to audio. We apologize for occasional errors and unintelligible sections (which are marked with ???).

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war. -- Dave Dellinger

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